metrical composition
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A metrical composition is divided into lines, each line containing a definite number of syllables.
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Horatio Winslow
The performance is a metrical composition, in stanzas of eleven verses.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
‘Between the language of prose and that of metrical composition, there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference.’
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
But never in all my life—" "Oh, well, if you ever get out of the infant class, Miss Selmer, you may learn a few rudimentary rules of metrical composition.
From Skyrider by Anton Otto Fischer
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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